John Charles Polanyi
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“The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.” -John Charles Polanyi
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“A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.” -John Charles Polanyi
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“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.” -John Charles Polanyi
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“The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.” -John Charles Polanyi
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“Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.” -John Charles Polanyi
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“For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.” -John Charles Polanyi
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“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.” -John Charles Polanyi
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